This dissertation, ""'Superior to all men': Violent Masculinity, Fascism, and American Identity in Depression-era American Literature,"" examines how American authors used modernist techniques and formal experimentation to recast the violent hero...

This thesis explores how the works of three contemporary women writers “write back” to the silences in the dominant historical narratives--made at various stages of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s notion of the production of history and in varying...

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza (Matamoros, 1964) critiques gender in her novels. In an era of prolific publications dealing with gender, Rivera Garza's work stands out for its fresh critique...

This study presents in-depth analyses of folktales from the oral tradition of French and Creole Louisiana. The region’s folklore is a unique tradition formed from the confluence of diverse elements following a number of significant population...

The pastourelle is a genre of medieval lyric poetry which existed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries in Northern France and Occitania. Most pastourelles recount dialogues between knights and shepherdesses in which the knight attempts to...